Re: [PATCH mm] kasan, powerpc: Don't rename memintrinsics if compiler adds prefixes

[Marco Elver]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 23:16, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:47:27 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With appropriate compiler support [1], KASAN builds use __asan prefixed
> > meminstrinsics, and KASAN no longer overrides memcpy/memset/memmove.
> >
> > If compiler support is detected (CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX),
> > define memintrinsics normally (do not prefix '__').
> >
> > On powerpc, KASAN is the only user of __mem functions, which are used to
> > define instrumented memintrinsics. Alias the normal versions for KASAN
> > to use in its implementation.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230224085942.1791837-1-elver@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202302271348.U5lvmo0S-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Seems this is a fix against "kasan: treat meminstrinsic as builtins in
> uninstrumented files", so I'll plan to fold this patch into that patch.

Yes, that looks right.

If a powerpc maintainer could take a quick look as well would be good.
The maze of memcpy/memmove/memset definitions and redefinitions isn't
the simplest - I hope in a few years we can delete all the old code
(before CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX), and let the compilers just
"do the right thing".

Thanks,
-- Marco